Change of scenes
Works from the Moderna Museet Collection by Dardel, Matisse, Abdul-Hâdi, Hjertén and Legér a.o.
Malmö -
15 October 2011
- 5 February 2012
This autumn, more than one hundred works from the period 1900-1950 from the Moderna Museet collection will be shown. This is the largest comprehensive presentation of the collection at Moderna Museet Malmö to date, filling both the Turbine Hall and the Upper Gallery. Two obvious highlights are Apollo by Henri Matisse and The Dying Dandy by Nils Dardel. The presentation features many fabulous works by seminal artists, including Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Siri Derkert, Isaac Grünewald, Sigrid Hjertén, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
The presentation has evolved around two main themes that are interconnected in several ways – the allure of non-European cultures in the early 1900s, and the phenomenon of fertile collaborations between visual artists and artists in dance and performance. A prominent figure was the theatre director and founder of the Ballets Suèdois, Rolf de Maré, who donated several key works to the Moderna Museet collection. Rolf de Maré worked with cultural celebrities such as Fernand Léger, Josephine Baker, Jean Börlin, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Francis Picabia, Erik Satie and many others.
This selection from the Moderna Museet collection will emphasise and discuss the quest for inspiration and alternative “spaces” – artistic, transnational and gender-bending – that took European artists to North Africa and Asia in the early decades of the 20th century. Several film clips will be shown together with paintings, sculptures, photographs and objects, to demonstrate the links between art forms, but also to show how the fascination for the “Other”, for the Orient and the exotic, was expressed in visual art, dance and performance.
Curator: Cecilia Widenheim.
The Moderna Museet Collection is supported by: Deloitte.